The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Triumph of Music, sentence 87
The water nymphs, also, cousins of the reeds that grow in the still waters between the hills, they heard the sweet music and were enraptured by it.
Who acts: reeds, water nymphs · What happens: grow, water, hear, enrapture · To what, where: sweet music
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Triumph of Music. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (reeds, water nymphs), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 nymphs | det |
| 2 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 nymphs | compound |
| 3 | nymphs | nymph | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 heard | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 cousins | punct |
| 5 | also | also | ADV | _ | 7 cousins | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 cousins | punct |
| 7 | cousins | cousin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 nymphs | conj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 reeds | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 reeds | det |
| 10 | reeds | reed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 cousins | nmod |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 grow | nsubj |
| 12 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 reeds | acl:relcl |
| 13 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 16 waters | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 waters | det |
| 15 | still | still | ADV | _ | 16 waters | advmod |
| 16 | waters | water | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 grow | advcl |
| 17 | between | between | ADP | _ | 19 hills | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 hills | det |
| 19 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 waters | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 heard | punct |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 heard | nsubj |
| 22 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 music | det |
| 24 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 music | amod |
| 25 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 heard | obj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 enraptured | cc |
| 27 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 enraptured | aux:pass |
| 28 | enraptured | enrapture | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 heard | conj |
| 29 | by | by | ADP | _ | 30 it | case |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 enraptured | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | present | the reeds | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | water | present | the reeds not said here | still | between the hills | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | hear | past | the water nymphs and cousins of the reeds | the sweet music | nymphs = nymph nsubj | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer music=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | enrapture | past · passive | the water nymphs and cousins of the reeds not said here | by music | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 66819 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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